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The two House members said Tigran Gambaryan is being wrongfully detained and should be freed.

Standard Chartered would become one of the first global banks to enter spot cryptocurrency trading.

Thursday marked the fifth straight day of net outflows for the U.S.-listed ETFs in their worst performance since mid April.

Gemini CEO Tyler and his twin brother Cameron Winklevoss, the company’s president, have made two of the first major presidential contributions from prominent crypto executives, favoring former President Donald Trump with $1 million each in support, Tyler explained Thursday in a extensive posting on X.

A California judge has ruled that a civil securities lawsuit against Ripple will proceed to trial, denying in part the crypto firm’s motion for summary judgment in a suit alleging that Ripple’s CEO violated state securities laws in 2017.

3iQ was a leader in getting some of the first crypto ETFs past the finish line and listed on the TSX

Criminal organizations in Mexico have been using several popular digital assets to buy the materials needed to make the drug fentanyl, according to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which cited the use of bitcoin and other tokens in a Thursday advisory.

The digital asset market has begun transitioning from early adoption to mass adoption. A sea change in industry leadership, product development and fiduciary commitment swept crypto in 2023 and early into 2024.

The stock lost nearly half of its value earlier this week following the tumble in altcoins and after the publication of a negative opinion piece in a crypto newsletter, the report said.

Telegram is onboarding the masses and ushering in a new era for public blockchains, says David Zimmerman, a research analyst at K33 Research.

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of June 20-26.

Software from Web3 accounting company Tres works with a wide range of digital asset networks, and can be integrated with accounting software such as QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite.

The company held 214,400 bitcoins as of the end of April, which at current prices would be worth about $14 billion.

The two suspects were interviewed under caution by the FCA and then released on bail.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for June 20, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Italy is set to adopt measures that will include high fines for those who manipulate the crypto asset market as part of a wider scheme to beef up surveillance of risks tied to the sector.

The donations appear to be mandatory and the LayerZero Foundation will match proceeds upto $10 million.

Stablecoin issuers are fast emerging as a significant source of demand for the U.S. Treasury notes as concerns about Washington’s debt management grow.

The next two-year phase of Project Helvetia will see other financial institutions and types of transactions join the party.

DOGE funding rates are starting to flip negative, data shows, as traders move away from riskier assets amid low volatility in the broader crypto market.

EDF subsidiary Exaion helps industries with digital transformation by focusing on addressing the energy efficiency of data centers.

The VanEck Bitcoin ETF, the first spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), debuted on Thursday.

The ratio has declined 35% in one month, reaching the lowest since March 13.

The AI-linked token sector has risen 14% in the past 24 hours, data shows, outperforming other sectors.

XMR briefly topped $180 last week, reversing the Binance-led February slide.

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been fined approximately $2.2 million (18.82 crore INR) for providing services to Indian clients without adhering to the nation’s anti-money laundering rules, India’s anti-money laundering unit announced Thursday.

In this week’s abbreviated issue of The Protocol, we’re chronicling the apparent doxing of ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli as the driver behind the recently-but-no-longer mooning $DJT token, plus the SEC’s apparent retreat on probing the Ethereum developer Consensys.

Institutions need to broaden their holdings of crypto holdings in order to capture the full range of innovation in the market, says Felix Stratmann, head of research at Outerlands Capital.

Interoperability between blockchain networks. Restaking. EVMs. Some major trends giving digital assets markets a lift in the new cycle, Santiago Velasco, Senior Trader, Nonco.

Jump Crypto put another $10 million into the U.S. political action committee (PAC) that’s seeking to rush as many pro-crypto members into Congress as possible to achieve legislation the industry is after, a spokesman for the PAC confirmed.